The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-28
Judge, Sentences the Nationalist LEADER to
Thrss Months in Prison.
0Brisn Tries to Make 3 Political Speech Bat
isStuppsd by the Court.
Crown Charged With Having Suppressed
Evidences Favorable to Elm.
Tenants Justified in Defending Their
Homes-Leaguers BOyeOtting women
Butler Objscts-Afraid.

CORK, September 24.-The trial of Mr..
William 0'Brien, under the Crimes act,
which was commenced at Mitchelstown
yesterday, was concluded today. The &C
cused was found guilty and sentenced to
three months imprisonment. Notice OF
appeal from the judgment of the court was
gwen.
At the opening of the trial to-day Mr..
Carson, council for the Crown, complained
to the judge that DR.. Tanner, member of
Parliament, had yesterday within the
court. called him mean rufianly coward,
and had expressed the hope that his head
might be broken. The court made a notc
of the complaint. Mr.. o Brien replying
to the charge made against him of having
used seditious language in a public adj
dress, declared that the court was not com.
petent to try him because it was foreign in
its composition to the requirements of the
British constitution. at this point the
judge stopped Mr.. O'Brien saying the dis
cussion of politics would not be allowed
in the proceedings Mr.. O'Brien thereupon
declared that he was chosen representa-
tive of the Irish people, and woald sdv)-
cate free speach. The court again stopped
him.
Mr.. O'Brien, in his speech OF defense
said the crown was guilty OF having sup
pressed evidence favorable to him. Tne
crown had withheld, for instsncs, the notes
made by the head constable OF the defend
ants speech. In these notes, he said, was
recorded his statement, that the Irish party
would give the land bill fair play. Con-
tinuine, Mr.. o Brien justified his defense
of the kingst0wn tenants on the ground
that the evictions against them were COM
menced Just on the eve Of the passage Of
the land bill, and thus an attempt was
made to defraud the poor, wretched ten
ants of the benefits of the measure. He
admitted that he had advised the tenants
not to give up without resistance and that
he had declared that, before God and man,
they were justified in defending their
homes.
O'Brien spoke brilliantly notvIthstand-
ing interruptions by the court, and was
frequently spplsuded. He asserted that
hfs advice prevented the evictious; that
hundred tenants in Mitchelstown now
possessed homes, VINO would have been
houseless if his advice had not been
adopted. The suppression of Constable
0'Sullivan's honest report. showed
c0SvctioS He adopted Preferred bFsaF
ing the law with John Hampton and
which Captain PlUnket and Stsndish
0Grady administered. Personally he felt
very proud of being one of the long line of
men who made prison cell a glorious and
holy place. Possibly he himself would be
the last of thai long line, for the English
nation, to which the last appeal must be
made, would reverse the decision pro-
nounced to-day and declare 1t no longer
crime to defend the homes and assert the
liberties of the Irish people.
Mitchelstown is Illuminated tonight
with rows of candles placed in all windows
on the main street. OBrien and Harring
ton will catch the night mail train at Linn
erick and proceed 10 Dublin. When they
left Mitchelstown they were followed
some distance by q cheering crowd. The
streets of the town were alive with people
until 10 o'clock, when the crowds quietly
dispersed on advice OF Commoner COnden.
Harrington will return to MItehelstown
Tuesday,
Police dispersed gathering in priests
grounds at Mi;cAeistovn to day. 1t is be-
lieved that an attempt will be made to
hold meeting near Mite helstoWn to-
morrow.
DR.. Tanner, Nationalist, made a speech
at Fermoy tonight The police, in dis
persing the crowd, used bRtons and the
people replied with stones. A worse dis
turbauce is feared.